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wandering   (TTS Sound)

The noun wandering has 1 sense

• wandering, roving, vagabondage -- (travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him")

The verb wander has 5 senses

• roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond -- (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town")


• cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander -- (be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?")


• wander -- (go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town")


• weave, wind, thread, meander, wander -- (to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body")


• digress, stray, divagate, wander -- (lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture")

The adj wandering has 3 senses

• mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering -- (migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes")


• meandering, rambling, wandering, winding -- (of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road")


• erratic, planetary, wandering -- (having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond")